Aston Martin has appointed Andy Cowell as a director after demolishing Mike Krack from the role in an organisational restructuring.
The former Mercedes Engine Guru Cowell joined the team as group managing director in October last year, but also made a team principal.
Krack, who has been Aston Martin’s team principal since 2022, will track down the director as a component of adjustments that have divided its aerodynamic breakdowns, engineering and functionality into separate track and campus operations.
Aston Martin, which moved to a new Silverstone campus in 2023, says the adjustments are designed for “clarity of leadership and as a component of a move to a flatter structure” and to help achieve “your project to a championship-winning outfit”.
“I’ve spent the last 3 months understanding and comparing our performance, and I’ve been incredibly inspired by the dedication, commitment and hard paints of this team,” said Cowell, the mastermind behind the engines that helped Mercedes win 8 successive constructors’ titles from 2014 to 2021.
“With the finishing touch of the AMR Technology campus and our transition in 2026 to a full works crew, across our strategic partners Honda and Aramco, we are on a quest to become a championship-winning team.
“These organizational adjustments are a herbal evolution of the multi-year plans we have planned to make and I am incredibly excited about the future. “
The announcement also showed that Enrico Cardinle will take over the technical director position he signed in July last year, with the Italian only allowed to start paintings after serving his time on gardening leave after leaving Ferrari.
Aston Martin’s announcement mentions legendary designer Adrian Newey, who joins the team as a managing technical spouse in March after leaving Red Bull.
The team said: “AMR Technology’s campus-based team will be led through the team’s new technical director, Enrico Cardin, with a team that can now focus one hundred per cent of its time on the challenge of the festival of ingenuity by creating a new race car.
Tom McCullough, who in the past led track operations under the name of the performance director, will remain in a “group leadership position, where he will play a pivotal role in the expansion of the team’s racing category team”.
The adjustments come after Aston Martin backtracked in 2024 following a 2023 incentive campaign. While they finished the campaigns fifth in the constructors’ championship, Fernando Alonso and Lance Stroll’s combined problems overall fell from 280 to 94.
Aston Martin has made no secret of its hopes for challenging names, especially as a new generation of engine and design regulations are brought into play in 2026.
The team has reached an agreement for its engines to be manufactured through Red Bull’s existing Honda, switching from Mercedes.
The billionaire team’s owner, Lawrence Stroll, whose son Lance drives for the team along two-time world champion Alonso, spared no expense in his attempts to create a title-winning outfit.
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